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Smashr – the free and addictive Android game testing how strong you are in smashing your phone became an attention magnet in last weeks Garage48 event in Tartu. “This is f…ing sick!” Kresten Buch, the Founder of HumanIPO has apparently said to this. Yet, the crazy startup has received a quite a response from social media and Estonian media. Hundreds of [...]
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- Tags: Garage48, Smashr
Estonian VC Allan Martinson’s newest startup Inner Circle has apparently closed its first seed investment round just few days ago. Estonian business registry shows that new investors behind the project are Regio (the well-known mapping, mobile positioning and GIS software developer), Estonian Development Fund (Arengufond) and its Chairman of the Supervisory Board, entrepreneur Raivo Vare. Investment [...]
Yet to be officially registered startup Defolio, built over a weekend and developing a collaborative design tool for freelancers and small creative agencies, was the winner of Garage48 event in Tartu. A group of eight people, among them Ahti Heinla – a founding engineer of Skype, Siim Teller – a well-known blogger and Tõnu Runnel [...]
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- Tags: Defolio, Edicy, Garage48, Skype
Garage48 organizer Priit Salumaa: More fun, astonishing achievements! (VIDEO)
In: New start-ups|R&D
30 Aug 2010Yesterday evening at 22, when crowds at Garage48 event in Tartu had already gone off for a well-deserved rest and beer, I spotted exhausted-looking Priit Salumaa, one of the main organizers of the event. He gave me a video interview, describing his gushy, yet concealed feelings after 48 hours of intensive collaborative startup building, heavy brainwork in [...]
New players, including the Co-Founder of Hansapank entering digital archiving business (VIDEO)
In: New start-ups
27 Aug 2010Well-known Estonian businessman Rain Lõhmus (pictured), Co-Founder of Hansapank and current Chairman of the Board of LHV Pank is entering into a new business. He already has paper archives in all three Baltic States. But Lõhmus is now going digital as well – he is to be found in a new startup called Baltic Digital Archive (BDA). [...]
Estonian startup Vecly, owned by entrepreneurs Indrek Raig, Yrjö and Rait Ojasaar and Artec Group, aims to benefit from the global digital revolution. They are developing software for Digital TV STBs (set-top boxes) to turn them into multimedia centers and make us use them for many other means than just TV. Artec’s STB’s with Vecly’s software [...]
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- Tags: Artec Group, Vecly
On behalf of the team (myself actually) I would like to thank everyone, who has supported this blog. Thanks for the encouraging words in TestMarket’s fanpage in Facebook and other channels, like Ekspress.ee story. Who doesn’t know yet – last week I was invited to Ministry of Economic Affairs to pitch my blog in front of [...]
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- Tags: TestMarket.eu
Publish your e-book in AppStore for 100$ (VIDEO)
12 Aug 2010Indilo Wireless, a rockin’ and rollin’ iPhone-iPad-iPod apps developer from Tartu, plans to launch something interesting this autumn. Marius Arras, the CEO of Indilo talks about a multimedia e-book publishing tool, currently under intensive development, that would enable anyone to publish his or her materials (books, notes) as e-books in a sexy multimedia-rich way and [...]
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- Tags: Apple, Indilo Wireless
What a pleasant compliment for Estonian tech sector and economy! US tech tiger Seven Networks, one of the leading providers of mobile email and messaging solutions on mass market devices, will establish a considerable R&D unit in Estonia. Current plan is to grow the Estonia office to approximately 50+ employees by the end of this [...]
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- Tags: Seven Networks
It was in 2006 when Playtech, an online gambling software developing superstar hired a guy from Israel, Boaz Laufer (pictured). He came to work in Estonia, where Playtech has its development units in Tallinn and Tartu. But now, four years later, there’s a depressing dispute between Laufer and Playtech. Martin Leiger from Playtech Estonia’s public [...]
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- Tags: Human Sapiens, Playtech, Tõnu Samuel
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- Silver Stoltsen: When you download this app also buy insurance for your phone sense sooner or later it will slip from [...]
- Kristjan: Naiste osas on nüüd olukord parem: Heidi Kakko AFst oli asutajate hulgas ja temale lisandus sel su [...]
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- Smashr – probably the craziest Estonian startup ever! (VIDEO)
- Estonian Development Fund, Regio and Raivo Vare invested into startup Inner Circle
- Garage48 winner Defolio is making buzz – what is it? (VIDEO)
- Garage48 organizer Priit Salumaa: More fun, astonishing achievements! (VIDEO)
- New players, including the Co-Founder of Hansapank entering digital archiving business (VIDEO)
- Vecly knows what will be your home multimedia center in future
- TestMarket.eu is the Estonian winner of „European Enterprise Awards 2010“
- Publish your e-book in AppStore for 100$ (VIDEO)
- US tech tiger establishes R&D unit in Estonia, hires 50+ engineers!
- Former Playtech employee runs his online gambling business and is a heavy spammer?